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Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

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Cantonment Hill is a small rise overlooking the port city of Fremantle, Western Australia. Since the early 1900s the hill and the surrounding 4 hectares (9.9 acres) precinct has been mainly used for military purposes with extensive buildings now present. It has been under the control of the Department of Defence.

The area was originally known as Dwerda Weeardinup, or 'place of the Dingo Spirit' to local indigenous Noongar inhabitants.The site includes the last remaining stand of pre-European settlement Rottnest Island Pine (Callitris preissii) on the mainland.In 1892 it was gifted by the Crown to the City of Fremantle in perpetuity "for the purposes of a public garden".